News

Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• The Dassett Music Festival

  Sat 27 Jun 2015

  I am literally bursting with pride after seeing and listening to all of our fabulous performers at last night’s music festival. They were totally amazing! The night was balmy and the hall was packed and filled with anticipation and we were not disappointed!

  The choir started the evening in style and performed 4 songs (Grandfather Clock, Edelweiss [Sound of Music], A dream is a wish your heart makes [Cinderella] and Naughty [Matilda] and sang beautifully. Our recorder group, made up of some of our younger pupils, played with confidence and showed that they are already demonstrating a talent for music. We then had performances from pupils in Year 2 to Year 6 on a variety of instruments – violins, flutes, drums, guitars, piano and saxophone – and the skill and confidence of all of our children was wonderful to see. The interval brought some much needed refreshment and an opportunity to cool off and our thanks to Michelle Brierley (one of our Governors) for helping with this. The children excelled in all areas and showed that their dedication to practising their instruments really pays off. Gail Bater (singing), Nathan Anderson-Barr (drums) and Lisa Foxwell (piano) were able to join us for the evening and their support was much appreciated. There were so many positive comments at the end of this evening and we will definitely be making this an annual event! It was truly a magical and musical extravaganza!

  

• Rocket Seeds

  Fri 26 Jun 2015

  Blast off!

  You may remember that we are registered to grow seeds that have been to space, well the RHS wanted to share some exciting news with you. They can now confirm that their rocket seeds are due to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 15:21pm BST (British Standard Time) this Sunday 28 June on the SpaceX-7 flight.

  Assuming the launch time doesn’t change, you can watch coverage of the launch from 14:00pm via the NASA TV website here.http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

  Once the Dragon capsule (with the rocket seeds inside) gets into space and starts orbiting the Earth, it will take a couple of days to make sure that all of its components are working correctly, before then firing it’s engines a few times to change its orbit and catch up with the International Space Station (ISS).

  The Dragon capsule will approach the station in a carefully choreographed space dance called ‘rendezvous’. The astronauts inside the space station will control the giant robotic arm, called Canadarm2, and grab, or ‘grapple’, the Dragon capsule. If the launch goes ahead on time, and there are no other problems, the capsule should arrive at the ISS on Tuesday 30 June, with coverage starting on NASA TV at 10:30am BST. 

  Once the capsule has been safely attached to the ISS, the crew will finally open the hatches between the ISS and the Dragon capsule on the same or following day to unload the cargo which includes their seeds!

  Much of the footage will be made available on YouTube to watch after Sunday.

  They will be tweeting about the launch from @RHSSchools so please join in the conversation.
  Also keep an eye on @spacegovuk (UK Space Agency), @NASA and @SpaceX for more.

• Thank You and Good Bye

  Thu 25 Jun 2015

  Thank you so much to those of you who supported the Summer Party last Friday, whether it be by coming along or helping on a stall. Everyone really enjoyed themselves and I have already received a message back about a balloon being found! The event has raised approximately £1000 for the school and our enormous thanks must go, once again to our amazing Friends for their hard work, commitment and organisation.

  This was Helen Wilce’s last event as Chair of The Friends (and what a success it was!) and we thank her for all her time and dedication in leading this fabulous team of volunteers and for enabling so many fabulous things to happen at The Dassett.

• Open Gardens

  Thu 18 Jun 2015

  Do come along and see the amazing work the Gardening Club have been doing in their transformation of the school grounds between 11am and 2pm on Saturday 20^th and Sunday 21^st June. There will also be a ‘Blooming Marvellous’ exhibition of the children’s fabulous flower work in the hall for you to see, as well as a second hand book stall.

• Balloons at the Summer Party

  Fri 12 Jun 2015
  There is going to be a balloon release at the summer party and balloons can be purchased ahead of time if people would like to send £1.50 per balloon into the school office any day next week and a balloon will be put into the net for them. The prizes are:

  Prizes for the 5 furthest travelling balloons

  Voucher for bowling at Banbury

  1 adult and 1 child tickets for cotswold wildlife park

  2 cinema tickets for picturehouse stratford

  Voucher for go karting at Mr Karting

  Family pass to the butterfly farm

• Fenny Compton Fire Station Open Day

  Thu 11 Jun 2015
  Fenny Compton Station has been operating for 50 years this month and to celebrate this WFRS are opening the station to the public on Sunday 21st June. There will be a series of events and demonstrations and a chance to get up close to equipment and to meet the firefighters. Demonstrations to include RTC(cutting up a car), large animal rescue, Breathing Apparatus and more.Doors open at 1200 till 1600. They hope to see many of you there.

  Anyone interested in becoming a retained firefighter? Go to www.warwickshire.gov.uk/beextraordinary for more details.

• Fresh fruit for sale in "Dassett Delights"

  Sun 07 Jun 2015

  We have strawberry pots, cherry tomato pots and nectarines added to our stock this week.

   

  See the full list of products for sale in the 'Children' section of the website.

• June Maths Challenge

  Thu 04 Jun 2015

  KS1

  In the picture below:

  Which shape is which colour?

  Clues

  ♦ Red is not next to grey.

  ♦ Blue is between white and grey.

  ♦ Green is not a square.

  ♦ Blue is on the right of pink.

  Lower KS2

  A farmer looks across a field of chicken and sheep. He counts 26 heads and 74 legs. How many chicken and sheep does he have?

  Upper KS2

  On the planet Vuv there are two sorts of creatures.

  Zios have 3 legs and  Zepts have 7 legs. An explorer saw a crowd of Zios and Zepts. He knew there was more than one of each kind of creature before they saw him and all rolled over onto their backs and put their legs in the air. He counted 52 legs. How many Zios and how many Zepts were there?

  

• Woodland Trust Poe–tree Competition

  Thu 04 Jun 2015

   

  Did you know the following 10 words have become much less prominent in recent years? Acorn • Ash • Blackberry • Bluebell • Catkin • Chestnut • Conker • Fungus • Holly • Violet

  The Woodland Trust would love children to write a poem including all of these words so they can help to bring them back into the lives of a new generation.

  The poem – called 'A Trip to the Woods' - should show all the magical things about nature, and how woods and trees make you think and feel.

  Children could pay a visit to some woods first so they really feel inspired, then get creating and see what they can come up with in 100 words, ensuring that each of the above ten words has been used at least once in the poem. If you wish to enter please e-mail your poem to hine.a@welearn365.com by Friday 12^th June.